29 July is Global Tiger Day. At the 2010 St. Petersburg Tiger Summit, the 13 countries that are home to tigers set themselves the goal of doubling the number in the wild over the next 12 years, and established Tiger Day.
The tiger is one of the biggest land predators, weighing in at just under the white bear and the brown bear.
Just five out of the nine subspecies of tiger identified can be found in the wild, they are the Amur (Siberian), Indian (Bengal), Indochinese, Malayan and Sumatran tigers.
The Bali, Caspian and the Javan tigers have been hunted to extinction. Photo: A dog called Kleopatra feeding two new-born tiger cubs abandoned by their mother Bagira at a zoo in Sochi.
Khinda, a female Bengal tiger, with one of her cubs at Yekaterinburg Zoo.
In the 20th century, the tiger has been listed as endangered by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (ICUN), and is on the lists of endangered species in Russia and other countries.
